WWLink

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by WWLink 2y ago
lol the plus side is not needing the awful eye dialation eye drops when you see the optometrist!
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by WWLink 2y ago
The brembos on our cadillac are silver, and by modern standards it definitely is not a fast car lol. It sure stops nicely though.
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by WWLink 2y ago
What if people came up with other, better ways of doing things? What if they're just straight up doing something very wrong and very inefficiently and they don't know that because they've hired a bunch of ignorant people who
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by WWLink 2y ago
I blame it on cybersecurity experts lol. They probably went all alarmist and decided that having that was a giant security risk.
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by WWLink 2y ago
Yea my brother has ruined 2 pairs of airpods in the washing machine.
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by WWLink 2y ago
The periscope effect can be pretty darn bad with the small lenses though unless they're right on top of your eye lol.
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by WWLink 2y ago
The good doctor offices do recommend all that. :) To be fair, I'm guessing a lot of people really suck at it lol.
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by WWLink 2y ago
It really really depends on the office and their practices. I visited (and later brought my mom) to a cardiologist who is a terrible doctor, but his office does instruct you to log your blood pressure and then they review the logs. So at le
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by WWLink 2y ago
> That's why the most appropriate way nowadays is to measure it at home, and keep a BP log. "Oh yea those machines are junk and totally wrong" And/or "WHY DO YOU TAKE YOUR OWN BLOOD PRESSURE?!" followed by a
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by WWLink 2y ago
> The syndrome may be less severe with piano and harp players than it is with guitar, and electric bass players. Have you ever seen Liberace's collection? Hehe. If you have enough money and space you can collect pianos as well.
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by WWLink 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnvYSKshvwc There's at least a few guitar youtubers who played that "which electric guitar am I playing?" game. I think you can pretty easily make almost any sound from any ele
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by WWLink 2y ago
Not sure about banking, but at least in tech, you'd be a horribly incompetent hiring manager in the US if you couldn't attract a diverse pool of candidates. I mean, horribly incompetent. Like, what'd you do? Post your job ad
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by WWLink 2y ago
6. The software architecture where a kernel mode driver is required is faulty and poor design.
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by WWLink 2y ago
I agree with this sentiment. If you ask me, the entity that comes out looking the worst from this Crowdstrike debacle are the companies that bought their service. Crowdstrike made a poorly designed and maintained product. I heard multiple p
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by WWLink 2y ago
> Pyxis cabinet Why would a Pyxis cabinet run Windows? I realize Windows isn't even necessarily at fault here, but why on earth would such a device run Windows? Is the 90s form of mass incompetence in the industry still a thing wher
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by WWLink 2y ago
IIRC, Sony CRTs also love blowing up their flyback transformer boards.
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by WWLink 2y ago
Typically there was a projector in the bottom that pointed up at a mirror. The mirror was mounted at a 45 degree angle and pointed at a screen consisting of a giant Fresnel lens and another piece of plastic.
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by WWLink 2y ago
> Microsoft to get serious against these consumer-centric companies like Apple and Google Microsoft can't do that. It's not in their DNA. Every time Microsoft has tried to make something consumer-centric it ended up flopping ev
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by WWLink 2y ago
I was that dude, but I hate using Windows! Microsoft kept giving me more and more reasons to stop using Windows, on a silver platter lol. So now my gaming PC runs fedora, and all of my other computers are Macs.
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by WWLink 2y ago
> I thought in general it was widely agreed upon at this point WFH is at-least a 10% drop in productivity. Stanford has been doing plenty of research in this area. The argument in favor of WFH has for the most part moved on to now cost s
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by WWLink 2y ago
> And it’s not just the currently disabled but caregivers as well. I had a PM that was caring for aging parents and we could hear her feeding them as we were on calls trying to unbork a business process that wouldn’t let us give customer
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by WWLink 2y ago
> They will delay as long as they can and try to avoid it like the plague if it's going to cost them money. The worst part: It's a tax writeoff like all the other business expenses they're so happy to buy without question.
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by WWLink 2y ago
Crazy thing is that there's a plugin for windows to use them as well. https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud-windows/set-up-icloud...
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by WWLink 2y ago
> On the other hand, once you speak in a sufficiently respectful tone This is something I noticed with people who whine about "I was being respectful" where they whine about facing consequences for using slurs but SEE, THEY USE
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by WWLink 2y ago
My standard for lower income class / middle income class / upper income class (not social, just income) is something along the lines of: Lower class: Has little or no savings, probably works a "gig" job that pays on 1099
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by WWLink 2y ago
> tly, it would be extremely reasonable to say someone can't have more than 8K in savings Even 8k is really not "middle class" at all. Middle class is "I have 6 months to a year of income saved up in case of emergenci
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by WWLink 2y ago
In most of the US, a house costs more than 300k. The average price atm is 513,000 according to https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ASPUS I'll suggest neither of us are actually right anyway. A raw piece of land tha
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by WWLink 2y ago
> your house that costed maximum 300K to build When you buy real estate you're mostly paying for the value of the land. Sometimes I'd even say the land might be worth more if there wasn't already a house on it lol.
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by WWLink 2y ago
The amount of times that Teams has gone down, or Teams broke, or Teams wouldn't let me do something literally every other chat program did because of policy or management or because Teams wasn't built that way for compliance reaso
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by WWLink 2y ago
> I used to work on Windows at Microsoft, prior to Windows 10. I've always kept some Windows machines around because I felt that Windows was actually not that bad of an operating system, having personally reviewed a good amount of i

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